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Liberal-FBI Love Fest Recalls 1950s
Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
19 Feb 2018
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The current liberal and “progressive” love affair with the FBI “is a way of affirming the status quo,” in which both Democrats and Republicans are participants, said scholar Ward Churchill, co-author of Agents of Repression. “You could look to the 1950s for similar absurdities, when the liberal left bailed, condemning people who were actual radicals across the board,” Churchill told Don DeBar, of Community Public Radio.

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